Miranda Mills | Book Collecting Q&A | How To Build Your Home Library @MirandaMills | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 minutes ago.
Hello! I hope you're all having a good week. Today, my Mum and I are answering your questions on book collecting and building a home library. Please see links below for my recommendations on buying vintage books and some favourite publishers. Do let me know if you consider yourself a book collector and what type of books you collect. Or are you tempted to build a collection now?
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SUBSCRIBE: If you enjoy this video, please consider subscribing to my youtube channel. I'd be thrilled! youtube.com/mirandamills
SUPPORT: No pressure at all, but if you would like to support my work by making a donation to my channel, you can 'buy me a tea!': buymeacoffee.com/mirandamills
INSTAGRAM: Do join me on Instagram: @mirandasnotebook (instagram.com/mirandasnotebook/?hl=en) and @mirandasbookcase (instagram.com/mirandasbookcase/?hl=en)
BOOK CLUB: I host the Comfort Book Club with my Mum, and every month we pick a comforting read and discuss it on the last Friday of the month (along with a baking session!). Everyone is very welcome to read along with us. The August comfort read is 'China Court' by Rumer Godden. See our other chosen reads for Autumn - Christmas here: youtube.com/c/MirandaMills/community
Join in on instagram, tagging @TheComfortBookClub #TheComfortBookClub
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GENERAL VINTAGE / SECONDHAND BOOKS:
I mainly shop from ABE Books (abebooks.co.uk - sells around the world), but also use eBay and Etsy
VINTAGE CHILDREN'S (AND SOME ADULT) BOOKS:
I personally recommend the below UK-based book dealers:
Caroline O'Sullivan (Encore Books): encorebooks.co.uk
Sally Dore (Topsy-Turvy Books): topsyturvychildrensbooks.co.uk
Gill Bilski: gillbilski.com/catalog.php
Sarah Key at The Haunted Bookshop: sarahkeybooks.co.uk
Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye: childrensbookshop.com
I also recommend checking the list of book dealers on the Girls Gone By website: ggbp.co.uk/dealers
BUYING BOOKS FROM ABROAD:
I recommend Blackwells (affiliate link): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home?a_aid=mirandamills
PUBLISHERS I LOVE AND COLLECT:
Girls Gone By Publishers: ggbp.co.uk
Fidra Books (no longer publishing)
Persephone Books: persephonebooks.co.uk
Greyladies Publishers: greyladiesbooks.co.uk
Slightly Foxed: foxedquarterly.com
Little Toller: littletoller.co.uk
Dean Street Press: deanstreetpress.co.uk
Virago Modern Classics (hardbacks and paperbacks)
Virago Editions of Angela Thirkell, Rumer Godden, Elizabeth Taylor etc
British Library: Crime Classics: shop.bl.uk/collections/crime-classics
British Library: Women Writers: shop.bl.uk/collections/british-library-women-writers
Pan Heritage Classics: worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/series/pan-heritage-classics
BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS OF CLASSIC BOOKS:
Penguin English Library (clothbound hardbacks and paperbacks)
Chiltern Publishing chilternpublishing.co.uk
The Folio Society: foliosociety.com/uk
Wordsworth Collector's Editions: wordsworth-editions.com/collections/collector's-editions
Thomas Nelson 'Seasons' editions with laser-cut dust-jackets: thomasnelson.com/blog/2019/08/13/thomas-nelson-announces-the-seasons-edition
V&A Collector's Editions of Puffin Classics: shop.penguin.co.uk/collections/book-bundles-v-a-childrens-classics
Hello! I hope you're all having a good week. Today, my Mum and I are answering your questions on book collecting and building a home library. Please see links below for my recommendations on buying vintage books and some favourite publishers. Do let me know if you consider yourself a book collector and what type of books you collect. Or are you tempted to build a collection now?
—
SUBSCRIBE: If you enjoy this video, please consider subscribing to my youtube channel. I'd be thrilled! youtube.com/mirandamills
SUPPORT: No pressure at all, but if you would like to support my work by making a donation to my channel, you can 'buy me a tea!': buymeacoffee.com/mirandamills
INSTAGRAM: Do join me on Instagram: @mirandasnotebook (instagram.com/mirandasnotebook/?hl=en) and @mirandasbookcase (instagram.com/mirandasbookcase/?hl=en)
BOOK CLUB: I host the Comfort Book Club with my Mum, and every month we pick a comforting read and discuss it on the last Friday of the month (along with a baking session!). Everyone is very welcome to read along with us. The August comfort read is 'China Court' by Rumer Godden. See our other chosen reads for Autumn - Christmas here: youtube.com/c/MirandaMills/community
Join in on instagram, tagging @TheComfortBookClub #TheComfortBookClub
—
GENERAL VINTAGE / SECONDHAND BOOKS:
I mainly shop from ABE Books (abebooks.co.uk - sells around the world), but also use eBay and Etsy
VINTAGE CHILDREN'S (AND SOME ADULT) BOOKS:
I personally recommend the below UK-based book dealers:
Caroline O'Sullivan (Encore Books): encorebooks.co.uk
Sally Dore (Topsy-Turvy Books): topsyturvychildrensbooks.co.uk
Gill Bilski: gillbilski.com/catalog.php
Sarah Key at The Haunted Bookshop: sarahkeybooks.co.uk
Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye: childrensbookshop.com
I also recommend checking the list of book dealers on the Girls Gone By website: ggbp.co.uk/dealers
BUYING BOOKS FROM ABROAD:
I recommend Blackwells (affiliate link): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home?a_aid=mirandamills
PUBLISHERS I LOVE AND COLLECT:
Girls Gone By Publishers: ggbp.co.uk
Fidra Books (no longer publishing)
Persephone Books: persephonebooks.co.uk
Greyladies Publishers: greyladiesbooks.co.uk
Slightly Foxed: foxedquarterly.com
Little Toller: littletoller.co.uk
Dean Street Press: deanstreetpress.co.uk
Virago Modern Classics (hardbacks and paperbacks)
Virago Editions of Angela Thirkell, Rumer Godden, Elizabeth Taylor etc
British Library: Crime Classics: shop.bl.uk/collections/crime-classics
British Library: Women Writers: shop.bl.uk/collections/british-library-women-writers
Pan Heritage Classics: worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/series/pan-heritage-classics
BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS OF CLASSIC BOOKS:
Penguin English Library (clothbound hardbacks and paperbacks)
Chiltern Publishing chilternpublishing.co.uk
The Folio Society: foliosociety.com/uk
Wordsworth Collector's Editions: wordsworth-editions.com/collections/collector's-editions
Thomas Nelson 'Seasons' editions with laser-cut dust-jackets: thomasnelson.com/blog/2019/08/13/thomas-nelson-announces-the-seasons-edition
V&A Collector's Editions of Puffin Classics: shop.penguin.co.uk/collections/book-bundles-v-a-childrens-classics
